Friday September 5th, 2008
Vision Construction Order No. 2
© No Reason Comics Written by Jeff Moss and Drawn by Dan Simon
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Vision Construction Order No. 2

I think I would be safe to say that we all know at least one person like this. Hell, chances are to some of you, that person might even be me. Fortunately it’s hard to find fairy wings in my size. Not that there’s anything wrong with wearing fairy wings. In fact, some people make a good career out of it.

So, something has just been brought to my attention. Something incredible and Earth-shattering. Something even more amazing than the impending season premiere of Heroes.

Did you know that in certain eastern parts of this Country of ours, there exists something called “The McLobster?” It’s a lobster sandwich from McDonalds, and it’s only available certain times a year on the East Coast. Mind-boggling. I can’t say I would entirely trust a seafood sandwich like that from McDonalds, but I’ll be damned if I don’t want to try one.

And before you ask, yes, I am the type of guy that would plan, execute, and love a road trip based solely on a sandwich.

Switching gears, this morning I was forced from my bed at an ungodly hour because they were fixing the gas line in our apartment building and there would be no hot water after 8am. They were nice enough to give me some warning, so I wasn’t too mad about it, but I still had some time to kill before I had to go to work.

The point of all this? I am pleased to announce that the first wave of No Reason #0 pre-orders have been packaged and shipped! So for those of you in the US, UK, and Canada (so yeah, all of you) your books are on the way and will be there as soon as the postal system allows.

Also, a big piece that was missing from my life has finally been filled as the NFL returns this weekend! The Good Guys are stacking up against the Kansas City Chiefs at 1pm Sunday, so if you call and I don’t answer, that’s why.

Or I don’t like you. We’ll see how the day goes.

MM


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  • http://www.noreasoncomics.com Jamie

    I just sort of realized that the title of this, while I’m sure most people will get as sort of a continuation of dear ‘Whispers’ speech pattern, I don’t think that many people would know that I’m referencing an actual ‘artwork’.

    Admittedly, the actual name of the series I’m referencing is a little diffeerent. I, on venture to the Art Gallery of Ontario a few years ago came across a series of minimalist drawings by David Rabinowich from a series called “Construction of Vision Order.”

    They were awful. Each of the ‘series’ consisted of a small circle or two, with a line or two, on an otherwise untouched page. That, and ‘Pillar of Fire’ (currently owned by the National Gallery in Ottawa) are clear indicators to me that most Fine Artists are either brilliant con-men or the whole ‘field’ is full of retards.

I am a giant idiot.

So, to answer any and all questions you may have about this weekends outage:

Yes, I am a giant idiot.

In attempting to rebuild my professional portfolio site and create an area for another very talented writer we work with, I accidentally deleted all of the wordpress databases in one foul swoop. Another aspect of my act of idiocy is that since the move, I have not been doing any kind of backup of the database or the wordpress blog, that being one of those tasks that I figured I’d ‘get to’ eventually. Unfortunately, I did not get to it soon enough.

Over the weekend, I’ve been hunting through old backups and variousinternet caches in an attempt to recover as much of the data lost from the database. Unfortunately, not everything is recoverable.

So in doing so, I’ve managed to wipe out all of our registered users information, all of your comments, and the forums for No Reason. While the framework and designs (and the comics themselves) were not deleted, thankfully, everything else was.

Which means, dear readers, that if you wish to admonish me for my idiocy, or simply lend a supportive word via comments, you’ll have to re-register. For that, I apologize sincerely.

Currently, I’ve managed to return about 90% of the functionality of the site back up to standards, and even cleaned up a couple of old issues we were having. The content recovery is hovering at about 30%, but progress on getting most of it back is still chugging along. One feature I haven’t turned back on is the ‘subscription’ service for new posts, as I don’t want mass emails sending out for the hundreds of posts I’m currently re-instating. That service will return this week though, so keep checking back with us.

Please don’t let this be an indicator of the service we strive to offer you here at No Reason – in learning from this huge mistake, I’ve already setup two separate backup systems.

I apologize for the interruption in service, and hope that once I’ve recovered the archives, you’ll take a look back through at the last two years of comedy we’ve been bringing you for free.

Live Long and Prosper,

Jamie


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